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What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
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